Since we moved in, we had sporadic internet hiccups, like you're reading webmail one moment and you click a link, something totally legit like for example a Reddit link Miss Cupcake sent me, but the browser times out. Or you're literally in the middle of logging into online banking and you get "the page cannot be found" DNS resolution error messages in the browser. Did your cybershopping transacrion process? Is it a cyberattack, do I need to rotate passwords? Then you tracert and ping and the sites are the...
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I've backed off caffeine use a lot, so what with the uncertain car situation on top of the relationship tension du jour and a tense commute, by the time I finished my corned beef hash wrap plate I felt exhausted and probably got to sleep ~9:30 last night.
Watching a little Futurama before bed, I suddenly realized Leela's voice is sooo familiar ... turns out it's Katey Sagal, who of course we've heard a lot of in her role as Gemma Teller Morrow on Sons of Anarchy.
Internet, including (or perhaps beca...
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a story about a mom who stood up for her kid
I don't particularly trust a domain called "beauty things dot info" to host real stories, but attacking the veracity of the story ignores the point that bullying and sexual harrassment happen
all
the
freakin
time
in schools. When I was in high school there was a kid who thought it was hilarious to sneak up behind other kids and pull their pants down. "Pantsing". Humiliating but not devastating to a boy chatting with his girlfriend, which is what I was doin...
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Silversun Pickups has been around quite a while, but I never heard of them until I started listening to 104.3 "The Shark" (calls itself "alternative" but there's a lot of crossover with what more urban markets call "adult contemporary"). Silversun Pickups last album "Better Nature" came out 2015-09-25 and the lead single "Nightlight" was released to radio 2015-08-06, but regardless of when The Shark added it to their rotation, it didn't really register in my consciousness until around this past new year.
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